Organizers
Marc-Oliver Pahl, Ph.D., IMT Atlantique, France (Expert Cybersecurity)
Prof. Dr. Marc-Oliver Pahl heads the industrial Chair Cybersecurity for Critical Networked Infrastructures (cyberCNI.fr) at IMT Atlantique Rennes, France. The chair hosts 18 professors, 9 PhDs, 4 PostDocs, and multiple engineers and interns. Marc-Oliver is an adjunct professor of Carleton University in Canada. Marc-Oliver is Vice President of the German Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) (germany.acm.org). He heads the Future Education activities of the German-French Academy for the Industry of the Future (future-industry.org). Marc-Oliver’s research focuses on a holistic approach to cybersecurity with an emphasis on collaborative approaches including VR-based cybersecurity interfaces and federated learning. He is an experienced teacher and an eLearning pioneer, holding several teaching awards. He continuously hosts events for larger audience such as the TALK.CYBERcni.fr speaker series and the future-iot.org PhD school series.
Fabian Rhein, PhD, Research and Innovation Ecosystem Munich & Karlsruhe at Siemens
Dr. Fabian Rhein started at Siemens Technology as a PhD candidate in the department of Material Design and Manufacturing Technologies in 2013. After 3 years, he joined University Relations as a strategic consultant and is now shaping the Siemens Research and Innovation Ecosystem (Siemens RIE) of Munich and Karlsruhe. Inside the Siemens RIE he is responsible for collaborations and knowledge interchange with universities, like the TUM, LMU, and KIT, research institutes, startups and companies.
Further Fabian Rhein is the Siemens Technology contact person for the Siemens PhD Network (SPN) and the PostDoc@Siemens program.
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Tim Kawalun, Coordinator Events & Cooperation at Einstein Center Digital Future
Tim Kawalun graduated in geography in Berlin in 2009 and has been working in science management ever since at different universities. Since 2018, he works at the Einstein Center Digital Future (ECDF) as coordinator for events and collaborations of the public-private partnership project that focuses on digital transformation research.
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Sebastian Steinhorst, PhD, Technical University Munich (TUM), Germany
Sebastian Steinhorst is professor for Embedded Systems and Internet of Things at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of TUM. The research of Prof. Steinhorst centers around design methodology and the hardware/software co-design of distributed embedded systems for use in Internet of Things, automotive and smart energy applications.
Speakers (alphabetical given name)
Falko Dressler, Technical University Berlin, Germany
Prof. Dr. Falko Dressler is full professor and Chair for Telecommunication Networks at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, TU Berlin. He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the Dept. of Computer Science, University of Erlangen in 1998 and 2003, respectively. Falko Dressler is an IEEE Fellow as well as an ACM Distinguished Member. He is a member of the German National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech). His research objectives include adaptive wireless networking (sub-6GHz, mmWave, visible light, molecular communication) and wireless-based sensing with applications in ad hoc and sensor networks, the Internet of Things, and Cyber-Physical Systems.
Florian Gramss, Innovations Manager SUP at Siemens, Germany
Florian Gramss started as a dual student in Electronical and Information Technologies and finished his Bachelor in Engineering in 2018. Parallel to studying his Master degree he became a fulltime employee at Siemens and works since 2020 as Innovation Manager for the Factory Automation Sales Support department. Having finished his Master Applied Research (M.Sc.) mid-2022, he will be starting his PhD in Software Architecture this October.
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Andreas Hofer, CEO at Aperion Analytics, Germany
Andreas Hofer did his Master in Mechanical Engineering at Technical University of Munich. Currently he is finishing his PhD in Production Management and Logistics. He has worked as a consultant in the field of Manufacturing Industry and is Founder and CEO of Aperion Analytics.
Guillaume Neau, Senior Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS), France
Guillaume Neau is helping France understand, think, build and shine cloud first as well as extracting the best out of AWS while having fun with innovative concepts applied to the field of cybersecurity.
Marc-Oliver Pahl, Ph.D., IMT Atlantique, France (Expert Cybersecurity)
Prof. Dr. Marc-Oliver Pahl heads the industrial Chair Cybersecurity for Critical Networked Infrastructures (cyberCNI.fr) at IMT Atlantique Rennes, France. The chair hosts 18 professors, 9 PhDs, 4 PostDocs, and multiple engineers and interns. Marc-Oliver is an adjunct professor of Carleton University in Canada. Marc-Oliver is Vice President of the German Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) (germany.acm.org). He heads the Future Education activities of the German-French Academy for the Industry of the Future (future-industry.org). Marc-Oliver’s research focuses on a holistic approach to cybersecurity with an emphasis on collaborative approaches including VR-based cybersecurity interfaces and federated learning. He is an experienced teacher and an eLearning pioneer, holding several teaching awards. He continuously hosts events for larger audience such as the TALK.CYBERcni.fr speaker series and the future-iot.org PhD school series.
Pierre Parrend, PhD, University of Strasbourg
Pierre Parrend is the head of the Laboratory for Systems at EPITA (LSE), and member at CSTB Team of ICube lab in Strasbourg. He is a professor at EPITA Strasbourg. Pierre works on cybersecurity of IoT, embedded devices and networks for more than 15 years. After a PhD on system security where he worked on making robust Java/OSGi platforms, he turned to detection of complex attacks in particular through graph-based detectors, metrics and learning.
Antonello Pastore, Consultant PCbased at Siemens, Germany
Antonello Pastore was Mechatronics Technician at swb AG in Bremen between 2014-2020. In 2017 he started his Bachelor of Engineering Mechatronics at the University of Applied Sciences in Bremen. Starting in 2021 Antonello Pastore was a Student Supervisor and Technical Consultant at Siemens AG in Nuremberg as well as started his Master for Applied Research in Engineering Sciences at the Technical University of Nuremberg.
Benjamin Schadde, Consultant PCbased at Siemens, Germany
Benjamin Schadde did his Bachelor of Engineering (Mechatronic) at Technical University of Nuremberg between 2013 and 2017. He was Student Assistant in the Laboratory for Mobile Robotics from 2017 to 2019. Benjamin Schadde finished his Master of Engineering in Mechatronical and Electrical Systems in 2021 also in Nuremberg. Since 2021 he works as Engineer in Presales Support at Siemens AG.
Laurent Toutain, IMT Atlantique and Co-Founder of Acklio, France
Laurent Toutain is a Professor with the IMT Atlantique Graduate Engineering School and a Co-founder and a Scientific Advisor of Acklio. He worked for several years on IPv6 and participated in the creation of the G6 group, which has been gathering researchers and industrialists around IPv6 since 1995. His current research focuses on protocols and architectures specific to IoT’s needs. From 2011 to 2015, he managed the Smart Grid competence center shared by Télécom Bretagne, Texas Instruments, and ITRON. He is the author of several books on networks.
Pascal Traverse, General Manager for Autonomy Technology at Airbus, France
Pascal Traverse is building Airbus strategy around autonomy technologies (automation, human-machine interface …) for the whole Airbus, launching the projects that are needed to fuel that strategy, fostering synergies within Airbus, and then participating in their steering. He participated in Fly-by-Wire development, from A320 to A380 – mostly on system architecture, safety and certification. Outside Airbus, he contributed to the first version of ARP4754 and regulation harmonization (with EASA, FAA …). He then managed Airbus system safety activities and later on part of A380 manufacturing quality (Final Assembly Line). Pascal Traverse is a Fellow of the AAAF, the Aeronautic and Aerospace Association of France. His doctorate is from Toulouse Institut National Polytechnique (N7). Pascal Traverse worked on research in LAAS (Laboratoire d’Analyse et d’Architecture des Systèmes, Toulouse) and UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles).
Antoine Wacheux, Solution Architect at AWS, France
After Antoine Wacheux graduated from a computer engineering degree in 2017, he worked for 2 years at Bloomberg in London on various subjects such as mobile applications or real-time market data ingestion. Then he came back to France where he started working on cloud computing infrastructure, first as a consultant, then as Solutions Architect at AWS. Within AWS, he works today mainly with french public sector customers about smart territories and media workloads in the cloud.
Challenge Co-Organizers
Emmanuel Baccelli, PhD., Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Emmanuel Baccelli is Professor for “Open and Secure IoT Ecosystem” at Freie Universität Berlin, in partnership with Inria and the Einstein Center Digital Future (ECDF). He received his PhD in 2006 in Paris from École Polytechnique. In 2012, he completed his habilitation at Université Pierre et Marie Curie. Since 2007, Emmanuel Baccelli has joined Inria as scientific researcher, where he currently takes part in the project-team TRiBE. Since 2013, Emmanuel Baccelli is also co-founder and coordinator of the open source community developing RIOT Operating System.
Florian Gramss, Innovations Manager SUP at Siemens, Germany
Florian Gramss started as a dual student in Electronical and Information Technologies and finished his Bachelor in Engineering in 2018. Parallel to studying his Master degree he became a fulltime employee at Siemens and works since 2020 as Innovation Manager for the Factory Automation Sales Support department. Having finished his Master Applied Research (M.Sc.) mid-2022, he will be starting his PhD in Software Architecture this October.
Erkin Kirdan, M.Sc., TU München, Germany
Research Associate at the IOT Smart Space Team at TU München.
Marc-Oliver Pahl, Ph.D., IMT Atlantique, France (Expert Cybersecurity)
Prof. Dr. Marc-Oliver Pahl heads the industrial Chair Cybersecurity for Critical Networked Infrastructures (cyberCNI.fr) at IMT Atlantique Rennes, France. The chair hosts 18 professors, 9 PhDs, 4 PostDocs, and multiple engineers and interns. Marc-Oliver is an adjunct professor of Carleton University in Canada. Marc-Oliver is Vice President of the German Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) (germany.acm.org). He heads the Future Education activities of the German-French Academy for the Industry of the Future (future-industry.org). Marc-Oliver’s research focuses on a holistic approach to cybersecurity with an emphasis on collaborative approaches including VR-based cybersecurity interfaces and federated learning. He is an experienced teacher and an eLearning pioneer, holding several teaching awards. He continuously hosts events for larger audience such as the TALK.CYBERcni.fr speaker series and the future-iot.org PhD school series.
Antonello Pastore, Consultant PCbased at Siemens, Germany
Antonello Pastore was Mechatronics Technician at swb AG in Bremen between 2014-2020. In 2017 he started his Bachelor of Engineering Mechatronics at the University of Applied Sciences in Bremen. Starting in 2021 Antonello Pastore was a Student Supervisor and Technical Consultant at Siemens AG in Nuremberg as well as started his Master for Applied Research in Engineering Sciences at the Technical University of Nuremberg.
Benjamin Schadde, Consultant PCbased at Siemens, Germany
Benjamin Schadde did his Bachelor of Engineering (Mechatronic) at Technical University of Nuremberg between 2013 and 2017. He was Student Assistant in the Laboratory for Mobile Robotics from 2017 to 2019. Benjamin Schadde finished his Master of Engineering in Mechatronical and Electrical Systems in 2021 also in Nuremberg. Since 2021 he works as Engineer in Presales Support at Siemens AG.
Kaspar Schleiser, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Kaspar Schleiser ist wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter an der Freien Universität Berlin.
Laurent Toutain, IMT Atlantique and Co-Founder of Acklio, France
Laurent Toutain is a Professor with the IMT Atlantique Graduate Engineering School and a Co-founder and a Scientific Advisor of Acklio. He worked for several years on IPv6 and participated in the creation of the G6 group, which has been gathering researchers and industrialists around IPv6 since 1995. His current research focuses on protocols and architectures specific to IoT’s needs. From 2011 to 2015, he managed the Smart Grid competence center shared by Télécom Bretagne, Texas Instruments, and ITRON. He is the author of several books on networks.
Antoine Wacheux, Solution Architect at AWS, France
After Antoine Wacheux graduated from a computer engineering degree in 2017, he worked for 2 years at Bloomberg in London on various subjects such as mobile applications or real-time market data ingestion. Then he came back to France where he started working on cloud computing infrastructure, first as a consultant, then as Solutions Architect at AWS. Within AWS, he works today mainly with french public sector customers about smart territories and media workloads in the cloud.
Lars Wuestrich, M.Sc., TU München, Germany
Research Associate at the IOT Smart Space Team at TU München.
Staff
Samira Franzel, Science Communication Specialist at Einstein Center Digital Future, Germany
Samira Franzel has been responsible for science communication at the Einstein Center Digital Future since 2021. She studied American Studies and Political Science at the University of Mannheim, the Free University of Berlin, and the University of Copenhagen. In recent years, she has worked at the Graduate School for North American Studies at the Free University of Berlin, the Goethe Institute, and the Sarah Wiener Foundation, among others.
Sandrine Frouin, IMT Atlantique
Assistante du Département SRCD
Erkin Kirdan, M.Sc., TU München, Germany
Research Associate at the IOT Smart Space Team at TU München.
Olivia Pahl, M.A., Web Chair
Olivia Pahl is the coordinator for the PhD Schools of the German-French Academy for the Industry of the Future (GFA) at IMT. Before moving to France she was heading the communications department at the Institute for Societal Development (FGW) in Düsseldorf, Germany.
Fabienne Rodionoff, IMT Atlantique
Assitant to the Chair Cyber-CNI
Lars Wuestrich, M.Sc., TU München, Germany
Research Associate at the IOT Smart Space Team at TU München.